"My life is different than it would have been if I never received the transfer in that I have paid school fees for my two children who are in high school with ease as opposed to before. I also build a decent spacious house hence I no longer stay in a small squeezed leaky house and I bought a calf too."

"I spent my third transfer on purchasing 2 oxen for ploughing my farms. Being rice farmer, I frequently used oxen which in most occasions were hired. That was very expensive on my side as it boosted a lot my production cost."

"In my opinion,GiveDirectly did well by improving the living standards of most poor households in my community as people have built iron sheet houses from grassed thatched ones ."

"I spent my third transfer on paying school fee for my children. That was a daughter in college and another in pursuing hair dressing course. To add on that, I had another daughter in secondary school who suffered too from frequent home visits for search of school fee."

"In my opinion, what GD does well is that it uplift the livelihood of the poor. At the moment, I'm not aware of anything GD doesn't do well."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well by giving assistance to the poor in my community and through this empowerment this households have built houses and acquired what they never knew they would have."

"I spent my third transfer to pay school fees for my children who are in high school. I bought clay to renovate my house, I bought steel door and steel window which I have fixed on my house. I paid laborers who were renovating my house, the remaining amount, I spent to buy a sack of maize for consumption and other household goods which I did not have."

"I spent 150000 KES of my third transfer on installing electricity in my home. I used 5000 KES in ploughing, I paid school fee of 12000 KES, paid a debt of 3000 KES and used the rest of the money on buying food."

"My life is different in that I now have a cemented house. This has saved me from jiggers and I do not have to spend a lot of time smearing m house with mud to maintain it since this is a long term solution."

"In my opinion, GiveDirectly did well in giving recipients transfer phones to that really enhanced security."